I Really Like One Sequence in Dad's Assasin
16/11/2025
Ok I have to write about this at some point because it still lodges in my brain like nothing has lately and it’s Dad’s Assassin. The reason why I’m writing this is due to the last chapter of volume 3 so spoilers! Also this is going to be structured more as a rant than anything else. I should start somewhere so I guess the synopsis.
“Ryunosuke's a high school student living with his father, Daniel, who's popular with all the ladies. Ryunosuke doesn't know it, but 14 years ago, Daniel was asked to take care of him by a particular woman. Ryunosuke has a few caring friends and he spends his days filled with fun and happiness. But, he also has a secret that he can't reveal to Daniel…!!” He’s in love with him thats the secret nothing more nothing less. This is what I am expecting going into the story the mess of an incestuous love from a child to a parent alongside the political drama of being the son of the former king of an unrecognized kingdom. That was all that I was expecting and the story presented all of this good? well?
I dont think I’ll do a great job recounting the story so you’ll get the context but I’m the guy that writes here and you’re the person who reads it so… Daniel! One overprotective dad who instals trackers and other spy gadgets shit because he’s really REALLY worried about his gay bisexual son and Ryu! Guy who loves his dad sexually, is in a bisexual polycule with his friends, and hangs out and dates with a guy who looks an awful like young Daniel(him going out with this guy is one of the instances where Daniel uses spy gadgets shit because again very very concerned dad)(and I can believe him considering Ryu is 16 but he’s Daniel so weirdo)(oh and this part)
So we get to my favorite meat of the story the sex between Ryu and Daniel and I’m in love with the way it is presented. The scene moves on with the usual fashion you would a “this shouldn’t happen” type of sex interrupted for a one page flashback to when Ryu was young and then it continues of but every little action is cut into a single panel and this goes on for pages and pages and as goes flashbacks are inserted into the scene and you’d know by the hard cuts between panels that has a white background and those with a black background. Past and present gets recontextualized “Is what I’ve done really purely as a parent?” There is a moment where this back and forth stopped for a bit with Daniel comforting Ryu whose worried for how wrong it all is and how its his fault and then the back and forth with past and present continues until
This is my attempt of describing what this sequence does and maybe it’s not good like at all but trust me when I say it is absolutely riveting to see. For a moment the past and present intermingled to create a new truth not I, Daniel an overprotective but good father but a much more complex but in a way realer truth of the really taboo nature of their relationship.
And well there is a subplot about the kingdom stuff about how Ryu has to be returned back to his home and well I don’t care maybe show will somehow make me care about them with the really dumb preview at the end of vol 3. So thats it! Kinda nonsense I know but I suppose thats the beauty of your own personal website.